wildimages@hotmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\nMy Slovenian friends Brane and Alenka who helped me out so much during my\u00a0ironman training in 2007 and again now.\u00a0 Alenka who is always cheerful showed great patience in teaching me to cross country ski and then kept a watchful\u00a0eye on me during the 6 day cross country ski tour of Slovenia.\u00a0Brane for always being helpful and providing enthusiastic support for my adventures.<\/p>\n
My Slovenian friends Andrej, his mum and Dusan.\u00a0 Andrej who has become a close friend since my triathlon training last year has again provided much help with ski equipment and teaching me to ski downhill. Andrej who is well known in Slovenia having crossed Greenland on skis in 27 days with his friend Stane in April 2007 has given me valuable time explaining the ordeal he faced during those 27 days.\u00a0 Dusan who keeps providing his fantastic mountain house for me to use and Andrej’s mum who is always helpful.<\/p>\n
My buddy Val who is always supportive in what ever I undertake and always has good ideas.<\/p>\n
Duncan Reid, also known as Coach Reid, for always giving good training advice and\u00a0superb physiotherapy advice when I need to overcome all the training niggles.<\/p>\n
Rachel Vickery who has just received her Masters degree is a powerhouse of sporting knowledge. Rach\u00a0always takes an interest in my adventures, shares valuable information, introduces me to\u00a0 other guru’s \u00a0with sporting knowledge, provides physiotherapy advise and if we happen to be in the same vicinity, treats the training wounds.<\/p>\n
Ian Thompson, also known as Herr Thompson, my mate in Hamburg who is always helpful\u00a0 whenever I am in Europe.<\/p>\n
Judith Paterson of PositiveLifeBalance for donating valuable massage time in keeping my legs in working order which usually involves frequent targeting of the niggly spots with\u00a0the “pointy thing”<\/p>\n
Jamie Fitzgerald and Kevin Biggar who did Hercules Inlet to the South Pole in 2006\/07\u00a0 have\u00a0been\u00a0so willing to help me in preparation for my South Pole expedition.\u00a0 Jamie has been fantastic in answering my queries,\u00a0digging out information, \u00a0passing on his extensive knowledge on the subject and lending me his skis for training. Kevin was extremely generous in lending me his pulk which he used for their expedition for my training down the South Island.<\/p>\n
Peter Gardner who has been repairing parachuting equipment including mine for years\u00a0has now with his trusty industrial sewing machines and great ideas been fantastic in getting\u00a0equipment ready for\u00a0my South Pole expedition. Pete whose motto is \u00a8helping people help people\u00a8 is one of those ever helpful\u00a0\u00a0guys and I am grateful for his efforts.<\/p>\n
Scott and Brad at Newmarkets Snow Centre for sorting out my skis. Cheers guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am very fortunate to be surrounded by great friends and supporters who generously provide support to me in these adventures. I am grateful to you all. There are some special thank you’s\u00a0and I would like to acknowledge\u00a0those here.\u00a0If I have omitted to mention anyone, please accept my apologies. Dan Ruck for spending valuable family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rossmaxwell.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rossmaxwell.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rossmaxwell.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rossmaxwell.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rossmaxwell.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rossmaxwell.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rossmaxwell.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}